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Drunk Sports Trivia Now Career Path for Students
For most people, a typical day on the job wouldn’t consist of a man pulling a beer out of his pants while being interviewed about sports trivia, but for content creators Joe Felix and Carter Stumpf, this is just another day in the office. It’s 9 p.m. when Felix and…
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UGA Campus Compost Program Gives Waste a New Purpose
Among the hustle and bustle of the University of Georgia, a bright orange tricycle transports dark green compost containers throughout campus. Emme McCumiskey, an intern at the UGA Campus Compost Program, arrives at various offices and residence halls on her electric-powered trike. Walking in empty-handed, she often leaves these buildings…
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Swap Shop at UGA: Turning Trash to Treasure
Picture a mountain of discarded material, towering as big as the University of Georgia’s 200,000-square-foot Miller Learning Center, destined for the landfill. That is the size of the 10 million pounds of materials UGA sends to the landfill each year. But through the doors of that same building is a…
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The Fading Gobble of Georgia’s Wild Turkey
Brock unscrewed the turkey from the wall and plopped himself down in a wooden rocking chair, bearhugging the bird, a wide grin on his face. He traced his finger gently down the spine of the bird as he talked about his greatest passion in life: hunting wild turkey. For…
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UGA Campus Kitchen: Nurturing Sustainability, Community Growth Amid Rising Food Insecurity
Athens-Clarke County is $12 million below the money required to meet food needs, with Georgia ranked ninth in the nation for senior citizen food insecurity. As Athens-Clarke County food insecurity among citizens continues to grow, the University of Georgia’s Campus Kitchen addresses the growing needs of those in the community…
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Counting the Cost of Curls: Black Women at UGA Talk About Responses, Resources for Hair
For Black women in America, the stakes are higher when embracing your natural curls, it simply costs more — financially and professionally. “What I have noticed, specifically being in Athens, is that the Black hair care products are more expensive than what I’m used to in Atlanta,” Kelsey Lawrence,…
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UGA Theatre Department Showcases New Student Production
On a brisk February night, the unfamiliar melody of a song drifts through the bottom floor of the University of Georgia’s Fine Arts Building. A minute later, several voices rise in harmony from the rehearsal room down the hall. Wyn Alyse Thomas, a UGA theatre student, and the cast of…
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Q&As Reveal Deeper Stories In and Around Athens
Journalism students in Reporting I found a bit more about the people of Athens through a recent set of Q&As with residents — finding, researching and then interviewing people tied to their areas of beat coverage for the semester. Click the images to read the Q&A for each person. …
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Car Detailing Company Wins Student Entrepreneur Competition
Detail Dawgs won $10,000 on Feb. 22 in the 2024 UGA Venture Prize Competition. The judges awarded second place to Sisterhood of the Traveling 20s, and Ox Sox, a second-time competitor, took third place. Around 60 students and supporters attended the event hosted by the UGA Entrepreneurship Program at Studio 225.…
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Hunter-Holmes Lecture Tackles Black Maternal Mortality Rates
UGA’s first Black female student, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, celebrated her 82nd birthday at the annual Hunter-Holmes Lecture with Spelman President Helene Gayle. At the lecture, Hunter-Gault also recounted her struggles first coming on to campus. “There were students, mostly boys, yelling the n-word go home and that was supposed to deter…